Fantastic Four #30 for Sale - First Appearance of Diablo - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #30
Publication date: September 1964
Key date: 1964-09-00
On-sale date: 1964-06-09
Indicia publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Diablo - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Esteban Corazón de Ablo - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Chic Stone; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Esteban Corazón de Ablo First, Diablo First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	The Dreaded Diablo!	comic story	22	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Chic Stone; letters: Art Simek	Esteban Corazón de Ablo First, Diablo First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
9	2 More Triumphs for Marvel ..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko; inks: Sol Brodsky, Steve Ditko; letters: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Quentin Beck, Thor Odinson, Max Dillon, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Nick Fury, Giant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Kraven the Hunter, Sergei Kravinoff, Flint Marko, Mysterio
11	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #22	1969	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #13 ISBN 0-87135-629-5	1990	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Omnibus #1 ISBN 0-7851-1870-5	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #3 ISBN 0-7851-1182-4	2003	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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